Block lifting and carrying apparatus.



PATENTED JAN. 15, 1907.

\ FISHER. BLOCK LIPTINGAND CARRYING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION TILED M R. 21.1906.v

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UNITED srnwnur oEEioE. GEORGE F. FISHER, or NORTH TONAWANDA, NEW YORK.

BLOCK LIFTING AND CARRYING APPARATUS- .Eatented J an. 15, 1907.

Application filed March 21, 1906. Serial No. 307,231.

prises two longitudinal side bars 9, having upwardly and forwardly curved arms 10,

terminating in a single cylindrical head 11,

To all whom it may concern:

1 3e it known that I, GEORGE F. FISHER, a citlzen of the United States, residing at North. Tonawanda, in the county of Niagara having an aperture for the reception of the .and State of New York, have invented cerstem 12 of a sheave-swivel 13, held in said tain new and useful Improvements in Block head by a nut 14, applied to "the projecting Lifting and Carrying Apparatus, of which end. of said stem. For the purpose of prop-- the followingis a s ecification. erly spacing the side bars and rigidly con- My invention re ates to a device for lifting necting them, transverse rods 15 are passed 6.; and carrying objects, particularly buildingthrough the same and have their ends threadblocks ,newly molded and to be lifted from the ed, nuts 16 being applied to the rods on oppomolding-machine and transported to setting site sides of each bar to prevent springing o and drying racks. the latter. j I

The objects of my invention are the pro- Secured at one end to the lower end-of the duction of a simple, durable, and. inexpensive hanger is a lifting and supportingrope 17, device of the character described, in which a which passes underneath a sheave 18in the traveling hanger is associated with a supsheave-swivel 1 3, thence up and over the porting member capable of adjustment tosheave 7 in the sheave-block 4, thence downward and from the hanger by the manipulaward and rearward onto and around a ropetion of arope-reel carried by said supporting reel 19, to which the opposite end of said member and having coiled thereon a suspenrope is secured. Said rope-reel is affixed to sion rope passing around sheaves in the a shaft 20, journaled in brackets 21, secured hanger and a swivel-head on the supporting to the side bars of the supporting member in member, respectively; to provide means for rear of the upwardly and forwardly curved 8o relieving the object on the supporting memarms thereof. To one end of said shaft a ber from jar, and to provide a lifting and carcrank 22 is secured, whereby the reel is rerying device which can be easily and convenvolved to cause the rope to be wound thereon iently controlled. or unwound therefrom for the purpose of ele- With these and other objects in view my vating or lowering the supporting member of invention consists in the construction, arthe device. 7 rangement, and combination of parts to be As this invention is particularly designed hereinafter described, and particularly pointfor lifting and transporting newly-molded ed out in the appended claims. concrete building-blocks, I have illustrated In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective in connection therewith the upper ortion of view of the device suspended on an overhead a mold, designated 23, and fifters 24, supporting-track. Fig. 2 is a central longithrust upward through the mold to elevate a tudinal section of the device. block 25 and the platen 26, on which the Corresponding numerals of reference refer block is supported above the upper end of to corresponding parts in both figures of the the mold. 5 drawings. It is to be noted that at the front half of The reference -numeral 1 designates a the supporting member the side bars 9 are track, which may be of any suitable conunconnected, so that they may be passed bestruction and supported in any desired mantween the lifters and underneath the platen ner. on which the block is sup. orted; also, that 2 designates a traveling hanger comprising the upwardly and forward y curved arms 10 a roller or wheel housing 3 and a sheaveterminate directly above a building-block, so block 4, connected by a coil-spring 5 to prothat the point of connection of the su portvide the necessary resiliency. Within the ing-rope is directly over the load. .n this housing 3 is a grooved. roller or wheel 6, manner the entire weight is carried by the 10 5 which travels along the track and renders rope, so-that the device can be easily operthe device transportable, and revolubly ated without exertion or inconvenience. mounted within the sheave-block 4 is a rope- After a building-block is ejected above the sheave 7. mold as shown in Fig. 2, the device is moved Ablock-supporting member 8 is suspended forward to bring the front end of the supfrom the hanger in a manner to be resently porting member underneath the block and described. Said supporting mem er comits platen. The rope-reel is then revolved to coil-spring 'betweensaid w eel-housing and elevate the block, after which the device may one end to said rope-reel and connecting said e drawn to any desired point Within range I han er with the sup orting member, so that of the overhead track and the rope-reel re- 5 the latter may be ellivated or lowered when 0 volved to elevate the supporting member revolving the rope-reel. still farther or to lower the same, as condi- 3. In a lifting and carrying device, the tions may demand, in delivering the blocks combination with an overhead track having onto the drying racks. e

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaimis I I 1. In a lifting and carrying device, the combination with an overhead track, of a hanger comprising a wheel-housing having a grooved wheel riding said track, a sheaveblock provided with a ro e-sheave', and a sheave, of a supportlng member comprising 3 5 swivel in said head having a rope-sheave, a rope-reel revoluble on the'supporting mem- 4o ber in rear of the upwardly'and forwardlycurved arms, and a lifting and supporting rope having opposite ends secured to the hanger and the rope-reel, respectively, and passing around the sheave in the sheave- 45 swivel.

In testimony whereof I have afliXed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

said s eave-block, a supporting member, and a lifting and supporting rope passing over said rope-sheave and connected with the supporting member to permit of elevating and owering the latter.

2. In aliftin and carrying device, the combination wit an overhead track having a traveling hanger thereon, of a supporting member .comprisin side bars having upwardly and forward y curved arms terminating in a single head, a rope-reel carried on sa'id'supporting member, a rope secured at GEORGE F FISHER. Witnesses: I

MAY F. SEWERT, 1 EMIL NE HART. f 

